Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[bounddreamer]

Doing trial roulette as Bard only for win a little of Esoterics and... I enter in Final Steps of Faith. As I never concluded that, I thought not have risk for roulette give me that. I mistake.

Well, my Scholar is Ilvl229, but Bard only 212. I died several times and party wipe. I said sorry and leave. Better farm Esoterics only with dungeon o.o

As soon as you've unlocked a duty and it appears in your list you can do it as part of roulette except for mentor roulette. That requires you to complete all available duties before you can even queue for it again.

[bounddreamer]

Some memorable recent mentor roulettes:

Joined as SCH on a rare healer in need mentor roulette and got Dzemael Darkhold. Had a DRK, a level fifty-something thaumaturge, and another dps. As I do with most low level duties, I protected and succored the party and switched to cleric stance. Things went pretty smoothly although the thaumaturge tried to sleep mobs during the big pull near the end of the floor. I asked him to use Fire 2 instead and advised I was putting dots on all the mobs.

On the froggy pull after the first boss, we had our first hiccup. First, the DRK fell off the ledge when one of the frogs knocked him back. I don't think he knew he could stun it. No big deal, I jumped down too, healed him up, prepared to dps again...but the whole rest of the floor aggro'd on me and I died before I could keep up.

I released instantly, ran back to the shortcut, rushed through the Telenor, Swiftcast summoning Eos along the way and nervously watching the DRK's health go down....down...down... Ran back to the group, jumped down to where they were at again, and healed him back to full, preventing a wipe.

The DRK was mortified, apologized, and I told him not to worry about it, everyone falls at least once when doing Dzemael. He agreed and we moved on to have a problem free run. Icing on the cake was the three comms they gave me.

This morning's mentor roulette was baffling. When I first saw it was an 8 man I was worried. Those end up being extremes more often than not, barring one easy WoD run a week or so ago.

It was Alexander, and I thought it was Midas until we got to the steam room. I saw my co tank was also warrior but with a 200 wep, so I turned on Defiance and let him know I'd tank Faust and adds. He said he'didn't already cleared A4S, wasn't new, so I shrugged, did a ready check, and there we went.

Faust took a suspiciously long time to die (there were about six adds? Maybe seven?) But we got through. I checked whether my co tank wanted .5 or original, we agreed who was tanking what where, I did another ready check, and mid pull I thought to myself huh. I should have told the party what to do with adds, just for review.

That thought was a premonition. When Oppressor .5 came out, I grabbed him and kept him north. I'd shifted to deliverance by the time we got adds and there was a laser right next to me so I figured I'd take it. My add died right away. The other three adds were a struggle. Two adds were still alive during the jump.

Rinse and repeat. I was taking and killing an add, but the next time three adds were still alive. I tell the group what to do during the jump, and explain what the laser is. "What's a laser?" was an actual question. Group still cannot execute. Half the group dies when the other laser isn't covered. (Again i took an add and a laser, again dps can't manage the other laser.) Healer uses healer lb3. Rinse and repeat, more death. By the point we were closing on enrage, it was me, the other warrior, and a healer left alive with oppressors down to 2%. We finished killing them before the jump and thankfully did not wipe.

I kind of wish I'd get Sephirot extreme instead... I'm actually curious about queuing for that in DF.

[MD5Ray01]

Got through Bismarck story mode recently. Party comp was 4 DRG (including myself), a WAR, a DRK, An AST, and a SCH. Well, we apparently messed up at the Sanuwa add phase (or something like that) because Breach Blast hit, and we all fell to the ground on the first try. So we get ready to try again, when the SCH's health suddenly drops to zero. We all jump off, figuring the SCH probably fell off by mistake. Second time, I watched the SCH jump off. Vote kick is activated, the SCH gets the boot, and 2 of the DRG drop as well. I put out a call to my FC for some aid, and one of my FC mates pops in as a DRG. Shortly thereafter, we get another healer (I think it was a WHM), a SMN drops in as the last DPS, and round two is on. This time, we burn down the carapace first try, burn down both Sanuwa adds, and destroy the Corona on the first shot.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Some memorable recent mentor roulettes:

Joined as SCH on a rare healer in need mentor roulette and got Dzemael Darkhold. Had a DRK, a level fifty-something thaumaturge, and another dps. As I do with most low level duties, I protected and succored the party and switched to cleric stance. Things went pretty smoothly although the thaumaturge tried to sleep mobs during the big pull near the end of the floor. I asked him to use Fire 2 instead and advised I was putting dots on all the mobs.
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I do believe dots won't wake mobs if they're applied before being slept.

Still, it's not that efficient.

[bounddreamer]

I do believe dots won't wake mobs if they're applied before being slept.

Still, it's not that efficient.

I was in the middle of applying dots and then using Bane. He slept when I was in the middle of applying dots. I honestly can't remember if I had miasma 2 at that level but if so, that got thrown on after!

[Fluestergras]

I was running Haukke HM on my WHM via 50 roulette, the bard was new, but the run was so smooth. Then we got to the last boss, I explained that adds have to die as fast as possible, and off we went. First two add phases weren't a problem, DPS was nice, then the third add phase started - and ended immediately. The boss devoured the add before we could even hit it, causing the aoe after that to wipe us. DPS was too nice.

I just... How on earth did we skip that last phase, I have never seen this happen in a sync party before. We made it in the second try when I stopped DPS after the second add phase, but... just... wtf.

[Hrimfaxi]

Went to Hullbreaker Isle hard yesterday with me as drg and my bf as war. It was so super laggy yesterday that everyone either DCed or lagged. Quite a long run but adds are burning down fast and glad the other healer and dps was patient. Hope to see you guys again!!

[sayafrost]

I will not vent about FsoF, cose people know already - only thing i will repeat... I don't think people know that they have to avoid aoes and that it's a thing that would save them, cose mostly the KO them (and not just in FSOF in everything, PLEASE LEARN TO DODGE).

BUT really is Hullbreaker HM the new one for tanks to avoid? This morning I went for my ex roulette, we got in, healer said they were new, and the tank just DCed, and he didn't come back, after 10 minutes we kicked him, and I had to ask a friend to come (I was lucky anyone was online in the LS) and we did that dungeon quite fast in the end,

[MeiUshu]

BUT really is Hullbreaker HM the new one for tanks to avoid? This morning I went for my ex roulette, we got in, healer said they were new, and the tank just DCed, and he didn't come back, after 10 minutes we kicked him, and I had to ask a friend to come (I was lucky anyone was online in the LS) and we did that dungeon quite fast in the end,

Ozma, when the other two groups knew a group I was in had 7 new people in it, the only one who wasnt was a dps DRG, there started a dance of disconnections at an incredibly high rate. Also, I would like for people to not rush in when someone is giving explanation of a fight and leave the time for people to actually read the instructions...what is silly about this ? people dont leave this time to others to read, rush in, die, and complain how bad the rest is...yep speak of silly

[Natashio]

BUT really is Hullbreaker HM the new one for tanks to avoid? This morning I went for my ex roulette, we got in, healer said they were new, and the tank just DCed, and he didn't come back, after 10 minutes we kicked him, and I had to ask a friend to come (I was lucky anyone was online in the LS) and we did that dungeon quite fast in the end,

I'm gonna go in there with my 210 Summoner, hope to get the a new player message, say I'm new, and test this theory out.